sam donaldson covered the reagan white house. you remember many times, perhaps shouting out questions to president reagan in the rose garden. i was there for one of those. sam, your thoughts on this day? >> first of all, i want to say it was chris wallace that broke the story that he hung up on the first lady and i think you can say anything to ronald reagan and he would smile and shrug it off but you said anything about mama, you were dead. she came to town and redecorated the white house at public expense and bought china. new set of china. she said we need china and then it was the view that nancy reagan was borrowing clothes from designers in hollywood to wear for functions in washington and elsewhere. well, this is a lot of bad press. [ inaudible ] >> i think, sam, we're losing you. we'll try to reestablish the connection. i think we're losing the connection there. chris, you heard sam talk about covering that reagan white house. it was quite a time. >> i'm going to just tell you because sam is exactly right. and this gives y

i can only say to you i hope we return to it. >> sam donaldson, thank you very much more your time. final thoughts? george? >> much is made of how traumaized she was by the assassination. she knew immediately what the nation did not learn for many areas how very close to dying the president was. he was -- the bullet came close to killing him and she lived with that a lot. she also knew to get back to the presentation am side of this fishbowl they lived in, she understood the usefulness of being self deprecation, you are a performer at the gridiron dinner and when the criticism of her for excessive glamour was too much and the fact she borrowed and worn some gowns from major american designers, she sang a song at the gridiron danger called "secondhand cloths," rather than second happened rose and it did a lot to humanize her and those who knew her did not thing she needed humanizing by those who didn't needed to be taught. >> george, thank you for your time and sorry for your loss. a statement by george w busch laura and i are saddened bit loss of nancy reagan the she was fiercely lo

katie couric and sam donaldson who covered the reagan white house. and melissa rivers will be here. her mother, joan, and mrs. reagan were good friends. the first appeared on her llte night talk show in 1986. tonight, joan. >> i think you are always on good behavior when a lid lady comes on your show. >> just sa clint eastwood and michael jackson. in 1983 making an appearance on the sitcom "different strokes." i hope i'm not disturbing you, i'm nancy reagan. >> "e.t." on the set, todd bridges who played willis was 17 at th >> the plot of that particular episode of "different strokes" is there was drugs being sold at arnold's sccool. >> years later when bridges rock bottom on his own addiction, he credits mrs. reagan's message for helping him turn his life around. he is 23 years clean and sober. >> when i got sober i completely understood what she meant by that. and that is a phrase i used to a lot. what i will not do is let someone else take me do make-a-wish foundation. check his facebook page for more information. >> next, in paris for fashion we selena gomez from glam and glitz h

katie couric and sam donaldson who covered the reagan white house. and melissa rivers will be here. reagan were good fr the first lady was her talk show in 1986. have you to be on your good behavior to behavior behavior tonight joan? >> you always have to be on your best behavior with ladies. >> just say no. clint eastwood and michael jackson. in 1983 making an ap on the sitcom "different strokes." i hope i'm not disturbing you, i'm nancy reagan. >> "e.t." on the set, todd bridges who played willis was 17 at the time. >> the plot of that particular episode of "different stroke is there was drugs being sold a the school. >> years later when bridges hit rock bottom on his own addiction, he credits mrs. reagan's message for helping him turn his life around. he is 23 yea clean and sober. >> when i got sober i completely understood what she meant by and a phrase i used to a lot. what i will not do is let someone else take me down. >> h has a fund-raiser for the make-a-wish foundation. check out our web page for more information. >> salina gomez with and glitz. forget about getting stuck

. >> we just saw sam donaldson arrive at his seat. this really is a who's who kind of a frozen picture frame from those years in the white house. >> well, yeah. i think johnny mathis still looking like johnny mathis as far as i'm concerned. some people don't age badly at all. but i think she had a lot of friends. you see people today that you wouldn't have expected. she feels not an ideologue with fro friendships. went out to places like de dulce veeta and went to places her and ronnie went to dinner and wanted to know what's going on in politics. we had a nice trading relationship. i said, i'll tell you everything i know about washington right now if you tell me what it was like in the old days. she always came with the great stories. >> don't forget show business, as i said. when you and i were on the air the day she died, she got all the magazines. even in later years when they had to be read to her when her vision failed her, she knew everything. she knew every story about every starlet. she knew about every scandal. she had discu

. >> rula, hillary clinton speak with sam donaldson after 9/11. >> everyone realizes we have to take o whatever it takes to be safe. >> including profiling, senator? >> i think we have to do whatever it takes, sam. >> was she right? >> i think secretary clinton evolved on many issues, let's put it this way. i am actually against racial profiling. people from around the world ran away from police states and now we have candidates who wants to turn the united states into an oppressive police state. this is not only preposterous. this is not the 21st century we belong to. we have so many hyphenated, african-american, jewish-american, what are the things that unite us? >> american. >> when have a a terrorist, you have to treat them as criminals. >> you don't see that to the degree that you're seeing now. >> but i think there's an enormous difference between profiling and racial profiling. profiling is a very good tactic, trying to find out as much as we can about a person's individual profile, name live travel history, ideology, whether or not they belong to any radical groups, whether or

when they were walking along and one of the reporters, probably sam donaldson, shouted some questionaid to him, we're doing the best we can, and president reagan said, we're doing the best we can. you remember that scene? >> i do. it was up at the ranch, and he was being asked, you know, why aren't you talking to the soviet leaders? and then he later said, you know, well, they all kept dying on me. and of course, gorbachev was one of t of them who hadn't died on them. this is a time magazine, what happened and that was the political partnership as well. forgive me, there's a big bus arriving behind me, senator, so i have to talk over that. but even when they were contested primary contests, they didn't get as personal and lowdown and nasty like today. i know from people who had spoken to her in the last couple of months, she was not happy about what she saw happening to the republican party. >> she was very unhappy. because as you mentioned, in '76, there was a division within the party, but because it was not personal, after it was over, ronald reagan supported gerald ford. and as y

and sam donaldson, high colleague and competitor from abc was trying to get a rise out of reagan. and he said how are you going to beat gary hart, he comes off like john kennedy. and without missing a beat, nan nancy reagan said he comes off like ronald reagan. and i don't think i've ever heard such an unbridled laugh from the president. he's ronald reagan, he doesn't have to worry about jack kennedy. >> great story. >> and you just saw the two of them unvarnished. as far as my father, my father was actually friends with a woman named et dch tchleddy dav actress back in the '40s. she was nancy reagan's mother. and nancy reagan not that she was that much younger, but she thought she was sort of younger than my father. and had kind of a teenage crush on him. and this continued over the years. and when i started covering the reagan white house in 1982, the relationship transferred and that's how i became such good friends with nancy reagan. and as you said earlier, and i think mark would agree to this, she was -- she could be frosty, she could be commanding. i've talked to members of

held friday afternoon and some people attending not expected to speed could be chris matthews, sam donaldson newt gingrich gingrich, wayne newton newton, angeles a houston to lung the guests that are expected at the north carolina reagan's funeral. b will have that life 2:00 p.m. on friday on c-span. end it tackles highway and bridge funding. >> big trucks and hp and 70 miles per hour speed limit. with more than a other country and of world. .org and wet the tripod for granted. 2 million miles of roads and 600,000 bridges are aging and congested and dangerous. >> things to all stages the teachers who competed this year and congratulations. the top 21 winning entries wells start airing on the c-span in april. all are available on line. backr congressman jc watts >>host: we're back with former congressman from oklahoma. also the author of two books the latest call dig deep. once again with the results of the primary last night. to the wall street journal front-page trump titans the grip of the g.o.p.. doesn't look like he is the nominee? >>guest: they make a a strong argument that it does. and

only family and friends and some of the invited guests will include abc's former correspondent sam donaldson, former house speaker newt gingrich, and entertainer wayne and you. will have live coverage at to cut p.m. eastern -- at 2:00 p.m. eastern. you can follow on c-span radio and c-span.org. find out more on reaganlibary.com. earlier today, british prime minister david cameron told members he would not resign if the u.k. decided to leave the european union. members also questioned the prime minister on jobs, the british economy, and syrian refugees. this is 35 minutes. >> order. >> questions to the prime minister. thank you mr. speaker. this morning i had meetings with colleagues and others. i shall have further such meetings later today. >> arron smith. >> people in bristol south look forward to their share of the 3 billion apprenticeships. but the question how this is going to happen. on the eve of national apprenticeship week, can the primary start tell us does he have a delivery planned, or is he making it up as he goes along? [chatter] p.m. cameron: we've achieved 2 million last parl

sam donaldson, who covered the white house back then, chris wallace had some great anecdotes from thatthe hour and a half, two hours we had remembering her life, it was all about her deg knitty, her grace, and the focus on the love between nancy and president reagan. and obviously that iconic image of her after the funeral, sitting there at the grave site. now she will be alongside her husband there in simi valley. >> well, republicans uniting around remembering nancy reagan this morning. but they are certainly not united around the gop candidates right now, as we look ahead to michigan and tuesday. of course you're out there in detroit right now. we were hearing earlier in the week john kasich, governor john kasich saying look i'm up in michigan right now. then we get a bombshell new poll just out yesterday that shows donald trump with a huge lead right now in the polls in michigan. bret, what's your take on the ground? >> well, listen, trump is well positioned here. i don't know, you know, there have been different polls. kasich closing in, there was one arg poll that seemed like an